Street Sweeper News

2008-08-27T13:08:00.003-05:00

Union purchases ad to protest layoffs of 6 Bound Brook public ...
New Brunswick Home News Tribune - New Brunswick,NJ,USA
In the coming year, the borough will outsource street clean-up services because a new street cleaner is needed, and ball-field maintenance will remain the ...
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Happiness means so much for my boys
Edinburgh Evening News - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
Still, it's not exactly the life Eleanor imagined when she and 49-year-old Peter, a street cleaner for Edinburgh City Council, started a family. ...
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2008-08-27T13:08:00.001-05:00

Philippines: The Making of A Sweeping Sensation
NewsBlaze - Folsom,CA,USA
Fedcheck is truly an inspiration for others like her and last year she was conferred with the title of the best street sweeper not only as recognition of ...
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City's new public works facility in spotlight at open house Thursday
Bemidji Pioneer - Bemidji,MN,USA
... especially children, to get up close to the city's new garbage truck and other city vehicles including a snow plow truck, grader and street sweeper. ...
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County View
Lagniappe - Mobile,AL,USA
As I was writing this morning a street sweeper came plowing down my street. If a street light goes out I call the city. I have a lot of trees, and in winter ...
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2008-08-25T08:43:00.000-05:00

Drunk clubber hurled table at window
Hamilton Advertiser news - Scotland,UK
Street sweeper Andrew Burns was also ordered to pay Hamilton Palace £800 in compensation. Burns, who lives with his parents in Swisscot Walk, ...
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Car Hits Main Street Building
iBerkshires.com - North Adams,MA,USA
Firefighters and city workers, including a street sweeper, picked up parts of the car, which carried a Vermont license plate. Fire Director Stephen A. ...
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2008-08-25T06:45:00.000-05:00

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2008-08-23T18:25:00.000-05:00

New York Stock Exchange
The Wenatchee World Online - Wenatchee,WA,USA
... manual labor for street and grounds maintenance, driving or operating equipment such as street sweeper, front end loader and snow plow trucks. ...
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Getting to Know the Berkeley Public Library's South Branch
Berkeley Daily Planet - Berkeley,CA,USA
Recently, a parent of one of the young children who loves listening to Josh read books—including one about a street sweeper—told him about a recent visit to ...
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2008-08-20T11:38:00.001-05:00

Mobile street sweeper overturns on Wisconsin Street at Illinois Street
Press-Register - al.com - Mobile,AL,USA
(Press-Register/Ron Colquitt)This street sweeper overturned about 7:30 this morning at Wisconsin and Illinois streets in south Mobile, said John Windley, ...
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Waverly Crackdown on Nuisances
WCHI - San Antonio,TX,USA
In other business, Council voted in favor of purchasing a new street sweeper for the streets department. The new sweeper will cost the city $99640 and will ...
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City to hold Astoria Service Fair
The Daily Astorian - Astoria,OR,USA
There will be displays, demonstrations of equipment such as the street sweeper, the "TV van," police radar gun, fire trucks and more, a video of parks and ...
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2008-08-19T11:52:00.001-05:00

Street sweepers prevent carjacking
Canada.com - Don Mills,Ontario,Canada
EDMONTON - Two quick-thinking City of Edmonton employees used their street sweeper as a barricade to stop a would-be carjacker from making a getaway. ...
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2008-08-18T12:36:00.001-05:00

Gum-buster hits the street
Morpeth Herald - Morpeth,England,UK
The machine can be used with any vehicle, freeing up the road sweeper for its intended purpose, and aims to ensure a quick clean-up response, ...
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Loeb braced for repeat of Turkey tactics in NZ
crash.net - UK
... but with the series now returning to gravel, the Frenchman is well aware that he will have to play the 'road sweeper' in Hamilton and that could leave ...
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Local Notes: Donore
Drogheda Independent - Louth,Ireland
Road sweeper Tomorrow (Thursday) the county council have arranged for the roads to be swept in Clogherhead. This will start at 6am. ...
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2008-08-18T06:33:00.001-05:00

Canal break puts 2000 on water rotation
Mid Columbia Tri City Herald - Kennewick,WA,USA
KID paid for a street-sweeper to clean the road, and Deputy Manager Margo Hines went door-to-door talking to homeowners. The irrigation district will pay ...
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Enhanced Disclosure, and the Stainless Steel Rat.
Technocrat.net - Boston,MA,USA
I'll leave you for a moment to consider what sorts of jobs have no possible connection to children, not a street sweeper, kids walk down the street, ...
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Police chief: Bomb not meant to maim soldiers
Sun.Star - Philippines
A street sweeper identified as Letizia dela Cerna found the IED underneath a bench at the waiting shed of a terminal of the passenger multi-cab inside the ...
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Deaths: Sunday, August 17, 2008
NewsOK.com (subscription) - Oklahoma City,OK,USA
STANFORD, Leroy R., 85, street sweeper, died Friday. Services 2 pm Tuesday (John M. Ireland, Moore). WALKER, Gladys Lorene, 98, died Friday. ...
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2008-08-16T13:47:00.001-05:00

Blinding sun factored into truck-sweeper collision: police
Northumberland Today - Cobourg,Ontario,Canada
A GMC street sweeper, belonging to the Town of Cobourg, was eastbound in the curb lane when a pick-up truck approached from the rear and struck the sweeper. ...
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Crew keeps fairgrounds spic and span
Beaver Dam Daily Citizen - Beaver Dam,WI,USA
"We can't afford a street sweeper, so we have this push-behind thing that they hate pushing around," Norenberg said. "They hate it. ...
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2008-08-15T12:54:00.001-05:00

Council workers' pay deal agreed
Aberdeen Evening Express - Aberdeen,Scotland,UK
One road sweeper voted no to the deal, as his pay will drop by £2500. said: "I am losing £60 a week off my pay. It's an absolute disgrace. ...
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2008-08-14T11:22:00.001-05:00

Police begin to enforce previously hidden parking ban
Rutland Herald - Rutland,VT,USA
Ironically, the city's aging street sweeper was taken permanently off-line about six weeks ago. There is no plan for its replacement. ...
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Street sweeping may be done by city employees
Albany Democrat Herald - Albany,OR,USA
Is anyone considering how much gas a street sweeper uses as compared to the environmental impact of having unswept streets? Maybe its about time people ...
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2008-08-13T11:11:00.001-05:00

ETRA transitions, has fewer flights
Kilgore News Herald - TX, USA
Janie Johnson, court attorney, said the request for assistance to White Oak should be provisional upon the addition of the county street sweeper to the city ...
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Town personnel take emergency training
Southwest Virginia Today - Richlands,VA,USA
At the request of the Public Works Committee, council approved the purchase of a new street sweeper. Members agreed to re-appropriate funds for a knuckle ...
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WALTER ROBINSON
The Jersey Journal - NJ.com - Jersey City,NJ,USA
Robinson operated a street sweeper for Jersey City Incinerator Authority for 30 years. Surviving are his wife, Patricia Brunson Robinson; a son, ...
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The Village of Antioch, Illinois stinks.

2008-08-12T11:43:00.003-05:00

The Village of Antioch, Illinois stinks. Or at least it did over the weekend.

A small spill during the removal of 80 tons of sewage plant sludge was reported on Route 83 which caused a significant odor.

In the past the village used settling ponds but did away with those a few years ago. Now about 16 truckloads of dried sludge is removed twice a year by a certified vendor and used on crop fields and other agricultural areas.

"Small amounts might have been on the bumper and tailgate and fell off while the trucks were moving", explained Jim Keim, director of physical services. "But we sent a street sweeper to clean it up shortly after and I drove Route 83 today, and there was no more problem" he reported.

More about the Village of Antioch: http://www.antioch.il.gov/

2008-08-12T10:47:00.001-05:00

Pensioner's brush with bureaucracy
Dorset Echo - Dorchester,England,UK
By Harry Hogger A PENSIONER has hit out at his local council after a large road sweeper's broom was dumped outside his Weymouth home for nearly a fortnight. ...
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2008-08-11T10:44:00.001-05:00

What is it with Whitley?
Reading Evening Post - Reading,England,UK
Street cleaner Darren Fyfield, 40, lives in Whitley Wood and really likes it. He said: "I work in Caversham and Whitley and I've never come across any ...
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Ben hits bum note ... again
The Sun - London,UK
He moves back to Jersey with baby, and becomes a street cleaner. But, despite the love of his family and beautiful Maya (Liv Tyler) he hankers after his old ...
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Family mourns
The Gazette (Montreal) - Quebec,Canada
By early afternoon, a street cleaner had swept away the debris and a lone bouquet of flowers marking the place Villanueva collapsed was all that remained. ...
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2008-08-10T10:58:00.001-05:00

Street sweeping is curious operation
Gainesville Sun - Gainesville,FL,USA
But Hawkins said that might change soon, as the city is experimenting with new schedules that would "better predict for people when the street sweeper will ...
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Tanker truck hits, flips street sweeper
Cleburne Times-Review - Cleburne,TX,USA
A tanker truck struck a street sweeper on Thursday, flipping it on its side and pinning the driver for about two minutes. A CareFlite helicopter transported ...
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2008-08-09T19:06:00.003-05:00

More than dozen local athletes have represented Canada at Games

Brantford Expositor - Canada
In later life, he worked as a street sweeper and garbage collector in Buffalo, NY, and Toronto. Olympic highlight: Controversy and disappointment marred the ...
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2008-08-09T19:06:00.001-05:00

Warsop street cleaner hailed a hero
Mansfield Chad - Mansfield,England,UK
"I'm not a super hero, just a road sweeper who takes pride in keeping Warsop clean for the residents who have made me very welcome over the last four years. ...
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2008-08-08T11:23:00.001-05:00

Berlusconi makes a clean sweep in Naples 08/08 08:12 CET
euronews - Lyon,France
"The streets shoud be an extension of your house," he told the watching throng before grabbing a street sweeper's wheelie bin. Waste disposal has long been ...
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Normalcy slow to return in Gearhart
The Daily Astorian - Astoria,OR,USA
Late Tuesday and early Wednesday, crews worked to clean the glass off the street on north Marion with Gearhart bringing in Seaside's street sweeper to ...
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We need our streets clean now
Hattiesburg American - Hattiesburg,MS,USA
When is the last time you sawa street sweeper on the roads of Hattiesburg? Not only do the roads in Hattiesburg look bad from all the trash and debris, ...
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2008-08-07T10:42:00.001-05:00

Cleanup committee butting in to help smokers put 'em out
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
Meanwhile, the committee, which was organized when the street-sweeper bit the dust in 2006, is continuing its Sunday afternoon cleanup campaign on Merchant ...
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2008-08-07T10:39:00.001-05:00

Legal barriers
Ha'aretz - Tel Aviv,Israel
In Israel, he worked as street cleaner. Revital Zana's father also worked as a street cleaner. Unlike Aliyo's father, he does not know how to read and write ...
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Tbilisi government marks Street Cleaners' Day, gives benefits to ...
Messenger.ge - Tbilisi,Georgia
The minimum monthly salary for a street cleaner is GEL 250 but pay scales are dependent on the district and the type of work. Garbage truck drivers can make ...
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2008-08-06T12:03:00.001-05:00

Getting to grips with gullies
Morpeth Herald - Morpeth,England,UK
"We have realised this is a problem and we have invested in an extra street sweeper this year so we now have extra capacity. "Our policy is to sweep every ...
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City Council Chairman is stepping down
WREC - Memphis,TN,USA
... tried - but failed - to censure then council members Rickey Peete and Edmund Ford, Senior after the two were charged in Operation Main Street Sweeper. ...
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2008-08-05T10:50:00.001-05:00

Street-sweepers Catch Illegally Parked Cars
WJLA - Washington,DC,USA
Street sweeper cameras were snapping away Monday sending warning tickets to vehicle owners who were parked illegally. In the next 45 days, the real tickets ...
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Allentown prepares for Main Street
South Pittsburgh Reporter - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
Another was to use Main Street money to pay for the regular services of a street sweeper. Inspectors should make sure that businesses that should be using ...
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Board Alters Night Parking in Borough Also Discusses New ...
istockAnalyst.com - Salem,OR,USA
Parking on Main Street will be prohibited only from 2 am to 6 am on Mondays and Fridays, which will allow the borough's street sweeper to clean the street, ...
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2008-08-05T10:49:00.003-05:00

Rubbish timing on the streets of Msida
Times of Malta - Valletta,Malta
A word of praise and encouragement goes to the street cleaner who does the sweeping in the area. He does a meticulous job. Since he is a foreigner himself, ...
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UNHCR helping refugees avoid statelessness in Montenegro
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
Adnan's father struggles to support his nine children on the 200 euros ($311 US) he earns every month as a street cleaner.. "In addition to extreme poverty ...
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Clampdown in China Muslim region after 16 police killed
AsiaOne - Singapore
A Uighur street cleaner who sweeps sidewalks in the area where the attack took place refused to talk about what he saw. 'It's in the reports, ...
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